Dylan

I agree that this would be a nice feature. You can do this now via the TrueNAS UI by going to Datasets, which will show you the amount occupied by each folder (Movies, Shows etc.)

@KaTaz Def check out our SHOW & TELL forum and @ubergeek is a hardware ninja who may be able to help.

Hi @kickhiminthenards - Do you mean identify as in cannot "see" folders or cannot be accessed? If you can browse to a specific path in TrueNAS you should be able to point an app to that path/location. Access to a given folder is, as you've touched upon, another story and likely a permissions issue.

No telling but I think this is spot on. It may not do much right now but it is a clean, simple UI design that I've grown fond of. Can't imagine they'd throw that out.

@Sonic That is significant and sounds like it was fun to build out over time. I think embracing small form factor devices, especially today, just makes sense for home environments. I had my little Netgear ReadyNAS for 10 years and just kind of forgot about it until I realized it was time to upgrade it. When I did, I also realized there were some REALLY cool products out there that are far more tailored to home use the before, like the Aoostart WTR Pro and HexOS. And here we are. I'd really like to keep in touch with you on this topic. I have a similar configuration in mind. My Aoostar AMD device wont arrive until later this month or even early April and I still have to get a few more drives but ultimately, this also what I am looking to deploy.

They are almost identical systems. There seems to be an increasing amount for these small 4 bay NAS systems; I think folks are realizing just how much you can do with them. I mean, they're essentially servers the size of a large grapefruit. (By the way - just how many NAS devices do you have??? 😆)

I sure will!

I currently have the Intel version and purchased the AMD version which should ship later this month. So, eventually I'll have both.

To claim your server go to deck.hexos.com

Thanks for following up with your fix!

Because I finally moved all of my data from old nas to new I am using my old NAS to back up anything really important. Once my 2nd Aoostar device comes in later this month and I get some drives for it I plan to do proper incremental snapshot policy.

Which is exactly why I try to preach for consistent backups - it enables you to experiment with reduced risk.

Can you tell us a little more of what's going on as well as what hardware and network you are using?

Thank you for your feedback @PsychoWards and @Sonic. I saw your other post about running HexOS as Proxmox VM and specifically your comment about how much of the HW is under utilized. Since the larger device may only be for backups and perhaps one other use case, this presents opportunity. I'll keep the forum(s) updated as I get closed to actual deployment but this was a good first round of insight.

Nice looking device....just hella expensive.

Hi Jon - have you had a chance to see if post edit restrictions can be eased up yet?

Heya @Zeldatrek - Dual channel is supported; can you log into your BIOS and confirm all is reported? If so, what about booting to a live linux ISO and see what is reported there. Please report back and let us know!

Picked THIS up for my primary streaming/storage device about four months ago. I've been super pleased with its performance so I went ahead and bought a second SIMILAR unit primarily for backups and potentially other edge/IOT (read home surveillance) usage. The difference being the primary uses an Intel N100 and, near as I an tell, is a little better supported when it comes to transcoding and streaming. The backup is slightly more equipped with CPU and RAM. Primary has 4x8TB raidz1 and the backup unit (eventually) will have 4x18TB in a raidz2. The only issue I see is if I use the back up unit for home surveillance, the high read/write IO could impact overall disk life. Am I wrong here? Tagging @Sonic as I would like to hear your experience on the AMD version of the Aoostar, so far. Thanks!

To the best of my knowledge there has not been a published version as we are still pre 1.0 (beta) - even the HexOS ISO download link refers to the TrueNAS version. That will (should?) be changing once version 1.0 is release.

I like my Firefox with all of my privacy extensions - add free YT is a must. Brave serves as my alternate from time to time.

Nice!

I've only been following this guy for about a year and despite his dry delivery find his content easily digestible, thorough and informative. Enjoy!

Tagging @jonp for visibility.

Great question! Because I have limited needs, just a storage device with basic streaming capabilities, I use HexOS on the daily - mainly Plex. However, this is just part of my larger effort to build out a home solution that will eventually replace paid-for services that have increasingly risen is price and are more inclusive of advertisements (I LOATH ads with a perfect hatred). I am attempting to time my efforts with HexOS maturation. Which is to say as HexOS gains in features, I look to increase my DIY replacement of paid-for services. I know not everyone has the same timeline, level of effort, risk tolerance etc.. as I do, but that's why I jumped in early. I keep backups, try to contribute to this community and help where I can to see where this is going.

It looks like REPLICATION will likely be my preferred method as I DO wish to automate this. @Mobius Buddy backup is a GREAT approach for offisite backups and one I will use and ask others the same, I just want to automate my writes from primary to secondary in keeping with the 3-2-1 rule - the "1" being when buddy backups are implemented. I'm still at "2" 😆